Students for a fair, sustainable, and guaranteed university pension scheme

This petition is in response to the proposed changes to the USS which is causing a countrywide strike amongst university lecturers. These changes would end lecturers' guaranteed pension benefits and have their final pensions depend on how the stock market performs. We are students at The University of Edinburgh who support our lecturers' right to strike and we demand that Professor Peter Mathieson, our Principal & Vice-Chancellor, negotiates a pension solution which does not endanger our lecturers' pensions. By choosing to gamble with the pensions of our lecturers, you are also choosing to gamble with the futures of your students and the education they receive.